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Guide To Legal Citation


Legal Citation

The Guide to Legal Citation explains legal citation formats for all types of legal documents in a clear, pedagogically sound manner. The Guide’s plain language, numerous examples, and clear, integrated structure to explaining the legal system of citation for legal materials is easy for students, professors, practitioners, and judges to understand and use. It was written and vetted by legal writing professors who have decades of experience teaching the citation format. One of the Guide’s fundamental goals is to be a restatement of the rules of citation to make citation easier to teach, easier to learn, and easier to do. To that end, it has three distinguishing features.

  • The citations that result from using the Guide are identical to legal citations advanced in other legal citation manuals, but the Guide is written with teaching and learning in mind.
  • The Guide seamlessly integrates the citation rules used in practice-based documents with those used in academic footnotes.
  • In addition to clear explanations, the Guide provides abundant illustrations and examples of proper citation formats for the many types of source materials cited in legal documents.

What is the Purpose of Legal Citations?

The task of "legal citation" in short is to provide sufficient information to the reader of a brief or memorandum to aid a decision about which authorities to check as well as in what order to consult them and to permit efficient and precise retrieval—all of that, without consuming any more space or creating any more .

Legal Citation Basics

Most legal citations consist of the name of the document (case, statute, law review article), an abbreviation for the legal series, and the date. The abbreviation for the legal series usually appears as a number followed by the abbreviated name of the series and ends in another number.

Citing Legal and Government Documents

Lawyers and scholars of the law have developed their own methods of citing 

legal materials in such documents as court briefs and law journals. Some other general style manuals have also developed specific rules for citing legal materials.

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